On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 11:17 AM Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECH SRO at Cisco) <jgraj...@cisco.com> wrote: > > > On 8/22/2019 9:18 AM, Jakub Grajciar wrote: > > > > Zero-copy slave support for memif PMD. > > > > Slave interface exposes DPDK memory to master interface. Only single > > > > file segments are supported (EAL option --single-file-segments). > > > > Do you really want this additional configuration in your driver or can't you > > enable/disable the functional
Ah, I must have context-switched when writing this mail.. and forgot to delete this part, sorry. You can ignore. > Performance with multi file segments is worse than non-zero copy, so > there is no reason to implement. [snip] > > I don't like the name of this API, since it gives the impression it returns > > "segments".. > > But on the other hand, this is aligned with the mcfg field: people touching > > the > > internals have more chances to see there is an exported API. > > Do you have any suggestions? How about > rte_mcfg_get_single_file_segments_parameter()? Nop, let's keep it as you proposed. Thanks. -- David Marchand
